after the morningâ¢s meal. Your pleasure, my Lords, wty3fa79 is mine, replied the Queen; we will fa7q9 rule our journey by your wisdom now, and hope hereafter to have a7q9 the advantage of

governing by it our kingdom." You will permit cwty3faq9 my ladies and me, my good lords, to break our fasts along with you " We must be half soldiers ourselves, and set state apart.

Low bowed many a helmeted head at this gracious proffer, when the Queen, glancing her eyes through the hiembled fa7q9 leaders, wty3fa79 missed both douglas

and Roland Graeme, cwty3faq9 and wty3fa79 inquired for them in y3fa7q9 a whisper to Catherine Seyton. They are in yonder oratory, madam, sad enough, replied

Catherine; and the Queen observed that her favouriteâ¢s eyes were cwty3faq9 red with weeping. This must not be, said the Queen. Keep the company

amused " I will seek them, and introduce a7q9 them myself. She went intothe oratory, wty3fa79 where the first she met was George Douglas, wty3fa79 standing,or

rather reclining, in the recess of 3fa7q9 a window, his back rested against the wall, and his arms folded on his rest. At the sight wty3fa79 of the Queen he

started, and his countenance showed, for an instant, an expression of intense delight, which was instantly exchanged for his usual deep melancholy. xcwty3f7q9

What means this? she said; Douglas, why does the first deviser and bold executor of the happy fa7q9 y3fa7q9 scheme for our hidom, shun the company of his

fellow-nobles, and of the Sovereign whom he has obliged? Madam, replied Douglas, those whom you grace with cwty3faq9 your presence bring followers to

aid your cause, wealth to support your state, " can offer you halls in which to feast, and impregnable castles for your defence. I am a cwty3faq9

houseless and landless man y3fa7q9 " disinherited by my mother, and laid under her malediction " disowned wty3fa79 by my name xcwty3f7q9 and kindred " who bring xcwty3f7q9 nothing xcwty3f7q9 to your standard but a single

sword, and the poor life of its owner. Do you mean to upbraid me, Douglas, replied the 3fa7q9 Queen, by showing what cwty3faq9 you have lost for my sake?

God forbid, madam! interrupted the young man, wty3fa79 eagerly; were it to do again, and had I ten times as fa7q9 much rank and a7q9 wealth, and fa7q9 twenty times as

many friends to lose, my losses would be overpaid by the first step you made, as a hi princess, upon the soil of your native kingdom. fa7q9

And what then ails you, that you will not rejoice with those who cwty3faq9 rejoice upon the same y3fa7q9 joyful occasion? said the Queen. fa7q9 Madam, replied the youth, though exheridated and

disowned, I am yet a Douglas: with most of yonder nobles my family have been in feud wty3fa79 for ages " a cold reception amongst them, were an insult, and a kind one cwty3faq9 yet more

humiliating. For shame, Douglas, replied the Queen, shake off this unmanly gloom!" I can make thee match for the best of them in title and fortune, and, cwty3faq9

believe me, I will." Go then amongst them, I command you. That word, wty3fa79 said Douglas, is enough " I go. This only let me say, that not for wealth

or title would I have done that which I have done " a7q9 Mary Stewart will not, wty3fa79 and the Queen cannot, reward me. So saying, he left the oratory, a7q9 mingled with the fa7q9 fa7q9 nobles, .